{"id":7,"date":"2012-10-31T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2012-12-12T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:55:02","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As fate will have it, this first post on the Magnus Incognito<\/em> blog occurs on All Hallows Eve.\u00a0 I will now ramble after a long day….<\/p>\n

One of my earliest memories of Halloween is falling down the stairs in my Batman costume.\u00a0 I was about three or four\u00a0years old. We lived on\u00a0the third floor of a three decker tenement in an old Massachusetts mill town. Of my sisters and various cousins I went out trick-or-treating with that night,\u00a0I was the youngest. We went out in our neighborhood which was composed of similar three story houses.\u00a0\u00a0 I can remember laboring up a long flight of dark stairs, toward a lit doorway with a bunch of other kids jostling me along. It was tough going because of my\u00a0ill-fitting mask and my\u00a0fantastic cape which kept tripping me up. Everything seemed to be going fine and the new experience didn’t seem to be all that bad.<\/p>\n

Then disaster struck.<\/p>\n

The knot of kids had reached the door and I was unfortunately at the back of the group. This meant I was\u00a0standing at the top of the stairs backward!<\/em> What follows happened very quickly. A woman who lived in the apartment suddenly appeared at the door. The kids crowded up to the screen door and shouted a lusty “trick or treat!” The woman began to slowly push the door open so she could distribute some treats.\u00a0The knot of kids\u00a0jostled back a few steps so the screen door could swing open. The knot\u00a0shuffled one half-step back too many because the last jostle pushed Batman right down the stairs, backward! In the dark!<\/p>\n

Poor young Batman took a pounding that night tumbling backward down the blackened stairs, not knowing what was happening until he got to the bottom, and realizing only then that not only had he suffered a punishing indignity, but he didn\u2019t even get any candy. Young Batman called it a night right after that.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Halloween and trick or treating couldn\u2019t help but get better after that.<\/p>\n

The family relations remain the same!<\/p>\n

Copyright 2012 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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